Many facets of leadership
The most popular topic in business writing is leadership. Perhaps that’s because wisdom on the subject is so elusive. To be a great (or even good) leader, there is no easy formula to follow, and much of the guidance you’ll find is clichéd or, worse, problematic. Yet I think the literature on leadership has gotten more credible lately. It’s as if the challenges of our time, and our increasing (albeit imperfect) knowledge of human nature, are forcing us to rethink our view of how people can grow into authority and what they’re supposed to do when they get there. In this issue, we’ve assembled a number of fresh perspectives, each of which speaks to a different facet of leadership thinking and practice. For example, there’s “Leaders in waiting,” by PwC’s Peter Englisch…